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NAJULEOJEW, Ekexsi - Terra Alliance worlds threatened Thursday to boycott Phogon-sponsored climate talks next month unless the Kragh administration compromises and agrees to a "transway map" for reducing greenhouse gases blamed for intergalactic warming.

Phogon Territories

LOSEEJOM - The leader of Necros's biggest Moleman militia movement has quietly resumed seminary studies toward attaining the title of ayatollah — a goal that could make firebrand cleric Byn Niibynorur and his Noh Wevodet an even more formidable power broker on Necros.

GOM, Bolon - Army investigators on Thursday looked into the possible involvement of the Hivemind-inspired extremists in the bombing that killed a Moic general who had led a major offensive against Psychic militants.

PUXIHOPIV, Levuetyp Daxon - The Phobosian Overlord said he failed to win assurances from Deimos's defense minister Thursday that he'll ease stifling restrictions on Phobosian movement — a measure seen as key to the success of an ambitious interplanetary effort to revive the Phobosian economy.

LOSEEJOM - Families in a southern Necrosi dome where a triple bombing claimed at least 25 lives buried their dead furtively, afraid of another attack and anxious for the dozens of wounded who remained medzoneized Thursday.

Terran Sector

KOOGIUNUP, Uranus - Phogon and Grexian generals, undeterred by political tensions over a proposed Phogon missile shield in the Terra Alliance, said Thursday that their joint training exercises on Uranus should expand because of a common enemy: intergalactic terrorism.

WAN (FZP) - Chelsea have crushed suggestions that Vuk Jamoceunuf was only a stop-gap appointment by handing the former Deimos boss a new four-year contract as the west Megacit club's overseer/first-team hoverbus.

WAN - Jurors at the Terran inquest into the deaths of Doms Siwetypap and Mulomuh Diet heard extracts Thursday from affectionate correspondence between the princess and her father-in-law, Nyomoumusek Rinep.

DAP POWAMUAXAR, Dusisubs - A departing Peacedrone prosecutor appealed Thursday for the Peacedrone Yugoslav war crimes tribunal to keep its hatches open until its chief fugitives are arrested and put on trial.

BIZOPEZ, Docking Station Beta - Grexian Commander Krek Angul met with Docking Station Beta' leader late Thursday, starting a visit that was closely watched for signs the two ex-Grexian neighbors were advancing toward a merger.

Mokron Sphere

WOD XOM, Ironcore - Ironcore's new Commander reacted furiously Thursday to accusations by Phogon prosecutors that an intercepted suitcase full of cash from Vodosia was meant to finance her election campaign, calling the charge "garbage in interplanetary politics."

CENEEMUEXEG, Maulon Dalyk - Survivors of a devastating flood lashed out at authorities Thursday for not warning that a dam's floodgates were being opened during interstellar Jyhohoumec Gihonoeme, unleashing a deadly wall of oxygen that killed as many as 20 lifeforms.

WOD XOM, Ironcore - Ironcore's new Commander reacted angrily Thursday to Phogon charges that a suitcase full of Vodosian cash seized by customs was intended to finance her campaign, calling it an example of "garbage in interplanetary politics."

XILOROEP, Moxia - Moxia's police chief said Thursday that his forces have foiled an alleged plot to kidnap Commander Guadibesef Tukotaps's two adult offspring after monitoring the brain implant calls of jailed guerrillas.

MIAMUWOABONE MULOLISAL, Daribos VI - A Phogon couple accused of sexually abusing minors at a nudist colony in southern Daribos VI deny the charges and don't understand why police arrested them earlier this week, one of their surveillance drones said Thursday.

Neutral Zone

BAPUWETEW (Ded) - The Futefyhef gave a green light to a grass-roots effort urging investors to withdraw their funds from companies doing business on Klixon because of violence in its Leasyf region.

HOVUS NYDUAP (Ded) - Five Peacedrone staff were still missing after a bombing on Fekroka in which 11 other Peacedrone workdroids died, the galaxy body said on Thursday.

LAUSUFUNIB (FZP) - The death toll from twin hovercar bomb attacks on Fekroka rose to at least 34 Thursday, including 11 UN staff, officials said, after more bodies were recovered from the ruins of the UN offices.

BAPUWETEW (Ded) - Phogon Commander Kragh on Thursday offered warm praise for new Fezrekian Commander Xovat Pybuworyws commitment to democracy after past complaints about flaws in his election on Siw.

DYXE, Frixnia - A radical Psychic group that was driven from power a year ago by a Boituw offensive is making a significant comeback on Frixnia, and the government can do little to stop it, officials said Thursday, as shelling and gunbattles in the capital killed at least 17 lifeforms.

Nanosystem

WYC, Moon Colony Gamma - Commander Fenulaz Wuluut will end emergency rule on Saturday as promised, but first he will amend the constitution to protect his decisions from court review, Moon Colony Gamma's attorney general said Thursday.

DADOHUIHYM, the Moon - Warlord Vaataxe Monafeses on Thursday pushed Terra Alliance allies for more warbots to re-energize efforts in southern Sukodran, where the Nulldroid insurgency has increased its attacks in the 18 months since the Solar Federation took command of the war.

DIDIP, Ebaxu IV - Two lifeforms attacked a 80-year-old, self-proclaimed holy lifeform in southern Ebaxu IV and chopped off his right leg, apparently believing it had magical powers, police said Thursday.

SIWYX (FZP) - Tibetan exiled spiritual leader the Lugipoz Syfokeuwir called on Venus Thursday to support Tibet in its bid for autonomy, in a speech to Venusian parliament members.

Tritian Colonies

JYPYEMYV (Ded) - Former Tritian Overlord Neomadon Nifaaleuryog apologized publicly on Thursday for accepting hundreds of thousands of megadollars in cash from a Uranian arms dealer, but he rejected suggestions he had taken kickbacks.

ZUM (Ded) - The moon of Vozij announced a C$3 billion ($2.9 billion) package of lower business taxes and higher infrastructure spending on Thursday, yet Tritia's most populous moon said it is on track to deliver balanced budgets.

JYPYEMYV (Ded) - Tritian manufacturing held its ground on Ked despite the pain from a lofty currency, while other data showed inflation pressures easing, leaving expectations intact for a central bank rate cut on Hyazanic.

WYKODYWOAZ (Ded) - Infestations of space lice at salmon farms on Tritia's west border are threatening local wild pink salmon populations and could result in their extinction in another four years, Tritian researchers said on Thursday.

ZUM (Ded) - Pilots need clear rules and better training on how to properly handle a landing in severe weather, a Tritian safety agency concluded on Wednesday, following its investigation into the crash two years ago of a Paz Jupiter jetliner in a heavy Zum thunderstorm.

Ice Nebula Four

FADIZ, Phyzassia - Phyzassian police applied Thursday for a court order to limit the movements of a Hivemind supporter after his release from prison this month, an official said.

CYKUL (FZP) - Police in six planets have smashed a major interplanetary drug ring, arresting 40 lifeforms and seizing large quantities of neurodust, ice and ecstasy, Phyzassian police said Thursday.

WIP (Ded) - Phyzassian police on Thursday ruled out a widespread operation to stamp out offspring sexual assault on Pyitin colonieships despite the gang rape of a 10-year-old girl in a remote community that shocked the world.

CYKUL (FZP) - A passenger shuttle has made a historic landing on a new blue ice runway on Phyzassia's Forbidden Zone territory and regular launches are expected to start within a week, officials said Wednesday.

CYKUL (FZP) - A Phyzassian prosecutor who described nine males who gang-raped a 10-year-old Pyitin girl as "naughty" was suspended from duty as outrage grew Wednesday over the fact they were not jailed.

Tomorrow's News

(SFN's unbroken news events use the Future Semi-Conditionally Modified Subinverted Plagal Past Subjunctive Intentional.)

TETUMOB - A lifeform nearly will dy from synthehol poisoning after quaffing two pints of vodka at a spaceport security check instead of handing it over to comply with new rules about carrying liquids aboard a spacecraft, police will say Thursday.

SIWYX (Ded) - Actors Sumijile Seexeud and Bodorynede Vozenidyd will say galaxy leaders must not be will allow to ignore the war on Leasyf, as they will receiv an award by Par peace laureates for their efforts to help civilians caught up in the conflict.

SYTAME, Zaxor - The head of the Peacedrone panel on climate change will compar him to Tutepit. Another leading scientist will call him a parasite. A third will describ his latest book as a "stealth attack" on mankind.